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Gardner, David C.; And Others – 1979
Designed as supplemental material to on-going instruction in the vocational program, this teacher's manual to the Culinary Arts series is intended to accompany three dictionary booklets (available as CE 024 415-417) for use by handicapped students to help them master the core vocabulary taught in the trade. Information presented in the manual…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Autoinstructional Aids, Cooking Instruction, Cooks
LAZAR, IRVING; AND OTHERS – 1967
A MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER WAS ORGANIZED TO PROVIDE PSYCHOTHERAPY AND SOCIOPSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES TO A COMMUNITY. INITIALLY A SERIES OF MEETINGS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY DETERMINED THE SERVICES THAT WERE NEEDED. THE STAFF FOR THE PROJECT WAS SELECTED FROM THE RANKS OF PROFESSIONALLY EDUCATED WOMEN WHO WERE NOT WORKING, RETIRED PROFESSIONALS, COLLEGE…
Descriptors: Activities, Autoinstructional Aids, College Students, Community Action
HOWARD, JACK; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH CORPS (NYC) ARE DISCUSSED IN THIS JOURNAL ISSUE DEVOTED TO THE PROGRAM. IT IS NOTED THAT ALTHOUGH A LACK OF DATA MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO REALISTICALLY EVALUATE NYC, ITS ADMINISTRATORS STRONGLY DEFEND THE PROGRAM'S RECORD IN DECREASING DROPOUTS AND JUVENILE CRIME, AND IN IMPROVING SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
ELLINGSON, CARETH – 1967
INTENDED FOR PARENTS AND CLASSROOM TEACHERS, THE BOOK TRANSLATES THE OFTEN TECHNICAL PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE WHICH ALREADY EXISTS CONCERNING CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISORDERS. DYSLEXIA (THE LACK OF ABILITY OR INABILITY TO READ) IS DISCUSSED, AND TWO CASE STUDIES ARE PROVIDED. MINIMAL BRAIN DYSFUNCTION AND THE RANGE OF ITS TERMINOLOGY AND SYMPTOMS…
Descriptors: Behavior, Case Studies, Children, Clinical Diagnosis
Griffiths, Audre A., Ed. – 1979
Surveys, interviews, and literature reviews were conducted to provide data upon which the Commission to Study the Mission, Financing, and Governance of the County Colleges in New Jersey could base its recommendations. The following areas were investigated: (1) composition of the trustee boards of the colleges and effective methods of selecting…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Board of Education Role, Community Colleges
Faddis, Bonnie J.; And Others – 1979
Ninth grade Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I evaluation results in reading and English-writing projects were compared, using the RMC Model A with local empirical norms, Model A with national interpolated norms, and Model B. The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS)--Total Reading and Total Language subtests--were administered…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Control Groups
Creech, F. Reid – 1974
The eight reports brought together here were based on data collected for the base year of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. Minor but systematic biases were present in the data since certain schools and students did not participate in the study. The accumulative effects of bias emphasize the need for care in…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Federal Programs
Nordloh, Mary J. – 1973
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Atkins, Oscar T.; Delaney, Judith – 1973
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Morehead State Univ., KY. Appalachian Adult Education Center. – 1972
Since 1967 the Appalachian Adult Education Center in cooperation with thirteen State departments of education has established several adult learning centers to provide services to the hard-core educationally disadvantaged and to test one specific method of operation to meet individual needs most effectively. Through this document, an attempt is…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Agency Cooperation
Mackin, Eva; And Others – 1971
The possibility of using instructional television (ITV) as the core component in an instructional system designed to meet the special needs of the educationally disadvantaged children of migrant farm workers, of American Indians, and of the inner-city poor was appraised. The educational problems of each of these three groups were assessed and…
Descriptors: American Indians, Community Colleges, Comparative Education, Compensatory Education
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, Oklahoma City. – 1998
This report details enrollment and achievement in remedial courses in Oklahoma's higher education institutions for the 1996-97 academic year. An introductory section gives background information on state standards for student assessment and placement requirements, with reference to some regional and national studies on remediation. Subsequent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, College Outcomes Assessment, College Students
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Hunter, Maxwell W.; Chen, Alexander N. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 1992
A local area network provided 32 seventh-grade remedial or learning-disabled students and their teachers with access to complete student performance records. Analysis indicated that system use by students and teachers was high and was a positive experience. A positive correlation was obtained between student use and completion of academic tasks.…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Classroom Techniques, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Networks
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Johnson, Genevieve Marie – International Journal of Special Education, 2004
Constructivism refers to a collection of educational practices that are student-focused, meaning-based, process-oriented, interactive, and responsive to student personal interests and needs. In contrast, instructionism refers to a collection of educational practices that are teacher-focused, skill-based, product-oriented, non-interactive, and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Reading Comprehension, Remedial Reading, Sight Vocabulary
Neckerman, Kathryn M. – University of Chicago Press, 2007
The problems commonly associated with inner-city schools were not nearly as pervasive a century ago, when black children in most northern cities attended school alongside white children. In "Schools Betrayed", her innovative history of race and urban education, Kathryn M. Neckerman tells the story of how and why these schools came to…
Descriptors: African American Children, African American Community, Academic Failure, Outcomes of Education
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